Washing machine



J. D. STANDEFER ET AL WASHING MACHINE Filed March 1. 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 attorney WWI 61955 Oct. 2 1923.

J. D. STANDEFER ETAL WASHING MACHINE Filed March 1, 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 W/T/VESSES Patented Get. 2, 1923. l

j osm- Least Form, njsrnnnnrnn AND; JAMES H. sTIDHAM, 0F noonnnlvinem m.

wr snme MAcnINEQ 1 Application filed March 1,1922. 'Serial 540,200.

T 0' all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN D. S ANDEFER and AMES H. STIDI-IAM, citizens of the United States, residing at'Dooley, in the county of Wise and State of Virginia, have invented 'certain'new'and useful Improvements in a Washing Machine; of which the following is a specification. i Y

The present invention relates to a wash-* mg machine and has for its principal-0b.

Ject to provide a simple and efiicient device which may be manufactured at a comparatively low cost and which will be reliable in operation and well adapted to the purpose for which it is designed;

Another important object of f the invention is to provide an agitating mechanism which will move the clothes in the water so as to cleanse the dirt therefrom without tending to tear or otherwise injurethem. v

Another object of the invention is to provide a two-compartment receptacle one of 'which takes the place of a boiler andthe tain novel features of construction, and the combination and arrangement of parts as will be, hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a vertical section through the device,

Figure 2 is a. horizontal section taken therethrough, r

Figure 3 is a vertical transverse section taken therethrough at right angles to the section shown in Figure 1,

Figure {his a. plan view ofone of the agitating members, i r

Figure 5 is a detailed perspective of a portion of oneof the agitating members, Figure 6 is a detailed perspective of the Spraying spout, and

Figure 7 is a detailed perspective of the lower portion of the spouting device.

Referring to the drawing in detailit will be seen that the receptacle consists of the boiler compartment l and" washing compart ment 2. The washing compartment 2 is within the boiler compartment 1 as is shown to advantage in Figures 1 and 2" wherein it substantially 'U-shaped .and' that the combottom 5 provided withplurality of apertures for allowing the water in the boiler will be seen that the boiler compartmentis f partment 2'is situated within the legs there- A tube 3 issituated in each leg of-the boiler compartment 1 and communicates at its bottom with a icasingehaving a reduced l compartment. 1 topenetrate therethrough.

so as to fill the casing 4 and the tube 3.

These tubes?) extend above the receptacle and termmatein a spraying spout 7 which extends-overIthewashing compartment 2 andis provided on its bottom with a plural ity of apertures. In oneleg of the :boiler compartment 1 there isv jou'rnaled longitu-' dinally thereof a crank shaft 8 provided with a plurality. oficrank members 9. The v bottom end. of this crank shaft 8 is jour I nall'ed at 10 in the bottom ofthe boiler comi partment 1 and the upper end thereof is j.

journalled in a bar 11 which extends transversely -.of the upper end of the leg in the compartment 1. This crank shaft 8 passes through the bar 11 and has keyed-upon itsu terminal a beveled gear 12 which is in mesh with a beveled gear 13 keyed on theshaft'14 which is journalled in the-brackets 15 and 16. )Y A drive pulley 17 is situated on the shaft 14 so that by rotation fthereofby any suitable means the shaft '14 will be rotated so as torotate the beveled'gear 13 which in turn rotates the beveled gear'12 so as to p impart a rotary motion to the crank shaft 8. A pluralityof pitman rods 20' are slidable through the walls of the compartment 7 2 and are connected to the cranks 9 so as to be reciprocated thereby. A plurality of agi tating members aresituated in the compartment 2 and are actuated by the pitmans 20. It will be noted that cross pieces 21 are pivotally connected to the inner end of the pitman rod 20 for supportingtheagitating mats 22 which are formed from a series of corrugated strands-of wire which are held between the cross bars 21 and 22. The cross which is held together by the set screws 2-1. a

bar 22" isheld within a clamp member 23 be seenthat the crank shat8 will recipro [ca-ts the. corrugated mats 221 through the 1n- This clamp member 28 is mounted on rods we claim as new is which are slidably mounted in the opposite Wall of the compartment 2. It Will thus termediacy of the pitmans 20.

It will be HOtBCl lH'F lgIZHG 2 that the bot tom" end of tie compartment 2 is provlded With a drain cock 27 so that the dirty Water 7 which settles therein ma be drainedithere from while a supply 01": freshboiling Water is being supplied through the tube 3.

e In using the device We place the Water:

which has previously been supplied with soapor the like in: the boiler compartment 1- ed 'Ich isthen placed uponia stove-011: some other heating means sear-l when the same comes toa boil; the ater will be :forced' through. the. casings 4,and tubes. 3 into the 20 washini -"eempartment 2. The: clothes may be placed sprayed thereen. It be understoodthat by providi the: clamp 23-these mats Ina-y be .prvote'cbsethat the clothes may be plied ,on the respective mats starting with the bot+ tom 1'. r t v Although we have: described our invention with some degree of particularity, itiszto' be understood that this has been done only Way of example an'dtl r. numerous changes in term, roport ion and in the combination and arrangement of parts may be resorted to Without clepartmp; from the spirlt of the invention as hereinafter claimerdt on the mats so that the same be-aeiteted throiwh the Water, as it niemberto and fro IY L :2 v

ment whereby: when Having thus described our invention hat 1. A device of the class described including a tam; hamng a-series of apertures arranged 1n oppositely disposed pairs, rods sli'dably mounted through .said apertures,v

flexible mats supported by said rods,'a crank shaft for operat on of one series Qf I'OdS for imparting ,reciprocatory motion to the mats,

and means for rotating the crank shaft 1 2. In; comb-1natmn, a receptacle provided with an outer compartment and an inner compartment, a tube disposed in the outer compartment terminating at one end adja- J: J- d w cent the bottom or the outer compartment and atits other end adjacent the-top oi? the inner compartment a spraying spout leadigf-rom tlieitop ofgthe tube over the" inner compa, ment, clothes supp orting member disposed Within the i fi mpartment; and means for moving the; clothes supporting liquid is heated in the in the inner compartouter compartment it may be delivered through the tube and sprayed over clothing supported by'the clothes supporting memher as it' moves all in the manner and for the our Jose snecified.

In testimony whereotwe our sign 

